A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.